this “Artificial Satellite” has caused increased interest in the media since the late 1950s, and has become one of the most talked about objects in space.
Here are some interesting facts about this mysterious object:
1. According to monitoring agencies around the world, the Black Knight satellite has been transmitting radio signals for more than 50 years.
2. The US and the Soviet Union have shown special interest in this “unidentified space object”
3. Nikola Tesla is rumored to be the first man to “intercept” a signal from the Black Knight satellite in 1899 after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs.
4. Since the 1930s, astronomers around the world have reported strange radio signals purportedly coming from the “Black Knight.”
1998 NASA photo of a mysterious object that some conspiracy theorists believe to be an alien satellite, the “Black Knight.”
5. In 1957, Dr. Luis Corralos of the Venezuelan Ministry of Communications photographed him taking pictures of Sputnik II as it passed through Caracas.
6. The Black Knight story made its media debut in the 1940s when the St. Louis Dispatch and San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14, 1954.
7. Time magazine wrote about the Black Knight satellite on March 7, 1960.
8. In 1957, an unknown “object” was seen “following” the Sputnik 1 spacecraft. The “unidentified object” was reportedly in polar orbit.
9. Neither the United States nor the Russians possessed the technology to keep a spacecraft in polar orbit.
10. The first satellite in polar orbit was launched in 1960.
11. Polar orbits are often used for earth mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from a point, and reconnaissance satellites.
12. In the 1960s, the Black Knight satellite moved back into polar orbit.
13. The Black Knight’s orbit was unlike any other object orbiting the earth.
14. Grumman Aircraft Corporation gave a lot of importance to this mysterious “satellite”.
15. Grumman Aircraft Corporation formed a committee to study the data received from the observations made but nothing was made public.
16. In 1963, Gordon Cooper was launched into space.
17. It was the amateur radio operator who apparently decoded a series of signals received from the UFO satellite and interpreted them as a star chart centered on the Epsilon Bootes star system.
18. According to the decoded message, the Black Knight satellite originated from the Epsilon Bootes star system 13,000 years ago.
19. On August 23, 1954, the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space technology published a story about the Black Knight satellite that angered the Pentagon, which was trying to keep the information secret.
20. NASA has released official images that appear to show the Black Knight satellite.
